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President Donald Trump has repeatedly attempted to replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which he claims is “failing.” His latest attempt was shut down by Arizona Republican John McCain, as well as fellow Republican Senators Susan Collins, of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska.

Only 24% of Americans supported the Graham-Cassidy bill, according to a poll by Public Policy Polling. And this week, a poll by the Washington Post and ABC revealed that only 26% of Americans believe Trump is handling health care effectively.

It makes sense then that at the start of Obamacare’s new enrollment cycle on November 1, people were signing up at a far greater pace than last year. According to the Centers on Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), 464,140 customers renewed their coverage and another 137,322 customers enrolled for the first time in the first four days of 2017.

Some 1,008,281 customers signed up in the first 12 days of 2016. Crunch those numbers, and there were 150,366 enrollments per day in 2017, compared with 84,018 in 2016.

Though it’s worth reiterating that we’re comparing the first four days of 2017 with the first 12 days of 2016, which is the earliest set of data available for 2016. Things may change when more data is available for 2017.

The enrollment period is far shorter this year, ending on December 15th. In 2016, people had three months to sign up. The administration has also slashed the advertising budget for enrollment by 90%, which has led experts to believe that enrollment as a whole might slump.

President Trump has also cut off cost-sharing payments owed to insurers, meaning premiums for some of those on the marketplace have risen.

The apparent surge in the popularity of Obamacare, despite President Trump claiming the program was in a “death spiral,” has left many on social media confused.

But Sabrina Corlette, a research professor at Georgetown’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms, thinks that at the end of the day, people just want good health care that they can afford:

Thinking about getting a tattoo? Don’t just dip your toe in the water; jump in pits deep with a trendy armpit tattoo. People everywhere are inking themselves up on one of the most sensitive areas of the human body that is not NSFW. It looks pretty cool, but it does make me wonder—who gets to see these?

The pictures on Instagram under the hashtag #armpittattoo are a beautiful museum of all the secret pictures people want to carry in their pits. Though some are very intriguing, it only seems worthwhile to do if you either need to desperately hide that you have a tattoo or you have a job where people are always looking there. Maybe as a professional basketball player? But check them out for yourself and decide if you’d let someone stick a needle into your tickle zone:

The real secret here is that armpit tattoos aren’t a brand new thing. Like all trends, they’re a repeat of something an older generation already covered:

Yeah, so this is really something people are really doing: getting freckles tattooed on their face, in the same vein of cosmetic tattooing as eyebrow tattoos. Eyebrow tattoos seemed to really catch on, so this could genuinely sweep the country. Get used to the thought: the freckles you’re seeing on that stylish girl in front of you might be an expensive facade!

The tattooed freckles usually look very cute, which is good, because they’re semi-permanent—meaning they can last three years (some of the tattoos are, in fact, completely permanent, BuzzFeed warns).

Warning, however, if you’re thinking of getting tattooed freckles—when they’re first applied, they’re extremely dark, which can look weird until the ink fades.

Many people are really skeptical about the trend, of course, and I totally include myself in that group.

Like many of these people, I’ve had freckles all my life, and I haven’t always enjoyed them. But then I remembered that as I’ve gotten older, my freckles have faded a lot, to the point where they’re not even noticeable if it isn’t summer. I do genuinely wish they were darker again!

Enough to get them tattooed back on? Well, maybe not.

I might not have consistent freckles, but at least no one is poking my face with a needle.

It emerged this morning that President Obama warned then President-elect Donald Trump about hiring the now disgraced Michael Flynn during a meeting after the election. This claim was acknowledged by a senior Trump administration official, according to NBC News.

Flynn was the director of the National Intelligence, and later the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, under Obama. In 2014, he retired from the military after openly criticizing the Obama administration’s stance on radical Islam. Flynn claimed that he was pushed into retirement.

Trump named Flynn as his national security adviser. But he was fired less than three weeks into the administration after it emerged that he had private conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States before he was in office, and for misleading Vice President Pence about the nature of those discussions.

This week, former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who also warned the Trump administration about Flynn and was promptly fired for doing so, is set to testify that Flynn misled the White House.

And as usual, President Trump took to Twitter to defend his administration from the revelations. But see if you can spot something wrong with his tweet…

Yes. In his now deleted tweet, President Trump incorrectly used the word “council” instead of “counsel.” The tweet was deleted several hours later, and the misuse corrected…

Ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Counsel.

Grindcore is a pretty extreme genre of music that surfaced in the mid-1980s. If you took hardcore punk, thrash metal, crust punk, industrial, and noise rock, and threw them all in the oldest, rattly blender you had, you’d get grindcore. It’s definitely an acquired taste, and not one that you would think a 68-year-old grandma would not only rock out to, but thrive in.

When you take age gap into consideration, music is one of the first major differences that come to mind. If I turn the radio on nowadays, I often catch myself turning the steering wheel into the opposing lane at the same time just to make it stop. Grindmother has definitely bridged that gap and then some.

It all started when she went to her son’s recording studio to provide backup vocals (read: screams) for his band, Corrupt Leaders. It became clear that she had a knack for it, which led to her starting her own band with her son and releasing the single History Repeats that has been seen millions of times worldwide, earning her fans all over the world, which includes a huge following in Japan.

Check out their live rehearsal video below:

She caught the attention of many celebrities, one of which was Ozzy Osbourne, who tweeted her video last year.

Her popularity has risen steadily, and she and her band are now preparing to go on tour. Her friends don’t quite appreciate the music as much as she does, but it sounds like they’re supportive of her rise to fame.

She even did an interview recently on Canadian television. When she’s not screaming her lungs out, she sounds like any other grandma does. Who knows what hidden talents they’re all hiding from us.

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The appreciation isn’t one way, either. She’s very thankful that her fans have accepted and encouraged her music.

You’ve all shown Grindmother so much love. Proof to people my age of what a great, welcoming bunch the metal community really is!

Bachelor Alum Sean Lowe Shares A Funny Pic Of His 'Freeloading' Baby-To-Be!
The funny post comes on the heels of Sean and Catherine's wedding anniversary on January 26. We still can't believe its been TWO YEARS since the couple tied the knot on television! Also, how nuts is it that the gorgeous momma-to-be is already sporting …Read more on PerezHilton.com

Robert Reich's Seriously Funny Crusade to Save Capitalism
Robert Reich's Seriously Funny Crusade to Save Capitalism and America's Middle Class, Part One. With friends and critics on both sides of the ideological divide, the former labor secretary has become a crusader for knocking America's powerful down a …Read more on BillMoyers.com

Samsung Studio At Sundance To Feature Funny Or Die VR + Film Panels, Supper Clubs
Chief among them: the first ever VR comedy short from Funny or Die, starring Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel. This looks like the next step toward virtual reality's entertainment market takeover of 2016, following the premiere of The Martian VR spinoff that …Read more on Paste Magazine

Jane Lynch wings in for her funny new sitcom, "Angel from Hell"
Television. Jane Lynch wings in for her funny new sitcom, "Angel from Hell". Jane Lynch plays a spirited oddball who barrels into the life of a sweet but neurotic young doctor as a "guardian angel." By Frazier Moore The Associated Press. Posted: 01/28 …Read more on The Denver Post

'I Thought It Would Be Funny': Meet the Woman Who Takes Dick Pics for a Living
On her website, she writes, “I thought it would be funny to treat dick pics like a high fashion photo shoot." So she decorates dicks with little outfits, little hats and even little wigs. But here's the thing about playing dress-up with dick: it's much …Read more on AlterNet

Castlegar Nordic Ski Club hosts 29th annual Troll Loppet
The Castlegar Nordic Ski Club held its 29th annual Troll Loppet on Sunday morning and had a record turnout for the 40 km course. There were 149 skiers who showed up to participate in the fun cross country ski marathon, and a record 26 skiers who …Read more on Castlegar News

Clever BYU students troll Utah with hard hats, 'safety first' signs
Twenty-four hours after Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak halted his team's century-old rivalry with BYU out of purported safety concerns for his players, the Cougars student section found clever ways to express their disgust with that decision.Read more on Yahoo Sports (blog)

Final Fantasy Explorers Producer On Making The Game Fun, Interesting, And …
Collecting loot is what makes games like Final Fantasy Explorers and Monster Hunter a lot of fun. How did you balance rare item drops? How does the luck stat come into play and what other ways can players increase their chance of getting rare loot …Read more on Siliconera

January 28 is National 'Fun at Work' Day
According to NationalDayCalender.com, we should all try to find a way to enjoy ourselves at the workplace, since it's where we spend most of our days. But there are a few things to consider if you plan on celebrating. “Make sure whatever fun and …Read more on FOX 13 News, Tampa Bay

Comedian David Cross, coming to Monterey, talks politics and other funny business.
Everyone's got their favorite David Cross moments: never-nude wannabe actor Tobias in Arrested Development, head injury faker Slow Donnie on Just Shoot Me ("Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot piiieeee!"), the standup comedy that stands up to bullies.Read more on Monterey County Weekly (blog)

Comedian Joe Matarese has the Rx for funny
I like to imagine comedian Joe Matarese moving through his essential life stations the way we all should: with “Gonna Fly Now” (you're not allowed to call it “The Rocky Theme.” Show some respect) building and crashing in the background. You know he …Read more on Cherry Hill Courier Post

Christie's latest critique of Rubio: Snow joke not funny
Chris Christie has launched his latest attack on Marco Rubio — this one over the Floridian's joke about how this weekend's snowstorm shut down the federal government. “Fourteen people died across the country, and that shows a real immaturity from …Read more on USA TODAY

Christie Got THIS Funny Response To His 'Bring A Mop' Blizzard Flooding Comment
Christie Got THIS Funny Response To His 'Bring A Mop' Blizzard Flooding Comment. A N.J. merchant had a funny retort to Gov. Christie's statement: "Do you want me to go down there [blizzard floods] and bring a mop?" …Read more on Patch.com